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This is the same woman, the same man, whom Donald Trump claimed groped him after he was in the presence of his 17-year-old daughter and when she was just 11 years old.

And here was the Republican frontrunner — and, as a candidate, a Republican — claiming that his treatment of two female reporters — both of whom he called “fat pigs” and “bimbos” — was somehow perfectly reasonable. “I don’t know her,” Trump said. “She’s a very unattractive woman. I don’t know her.”

“Bimbos” has been a running punch line in modern politics, as a way to describe a group of unattractive women who have tried to look like the men. “Fat pigs” also became a catchphrase for those who felt their efforts weren’t being appreciated. And “obnoxious” has become a catchphrase of those who feel like they, too, are entitled to a fair hearing. But while “obnoxious,” “bimbos” and “obnoxious” have had their day, “fat pig,” “obnoxious” and “obnoxious man” — when used in the context of the men who grab women, not the women who get grabbed – have remained in relative political purgatory. It’s no wonder that Trump has always found these three words — and others with similar meanings — to be both provocative and threatening.

The most famous person to ever use the phrase, for instance, was the notorious “unpopular” George C. Scott, a Mississippi-born writer, politician and governor who, in the middle of a heated debate about the civil rights movement in 1955, wrote to President Dwight Eisenhower to tell him he thought he “could really get away with it,” and who later went to prison. (Scott was released after serving nearly three years; the U.S. Supreme Court later overturned his conviction on the grounds that he had been coerced into cooperating by his lawyers.)

While Scott was often thought to have been referring to African-Americans, Trump apparently has also picked up on that idea himself. In the same week that Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) called Trump “a racist,” Trump said on Twitter: “How does Sen. Lindsey Graham know what racism is? I don’t know Lindsey! He has never spoken to me!”

Then there’s Sen.